Part 2 of Dave Abner’s, three part, Branson Daily News piece is up and you can check it out here.
I was caught expounding about the early days again and discussing the virtues of the Fender Telecaster…
Pribek is mostly a one-ax guy.
He’s played bunches of them through the years – Gibson Les Pauls and Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters are but a few.
But it’s the Telecaster – the Tele (TELL-lee) – he revisits again and again.
In fact, he’s spent the better part of the past few years playing nothing but Telecaster – and not one Tele out of a collection of a dozen, but one Tele.
A single Tele. His bread-and-butter ax.
Part of it’s just what you know.
“I’m used to ‘em,” Pribek said. “I know ‘em inside and out.”
He said some age-old guitar questions (Fender or Gibson? Strat or Tele?) are decided the same way some guys decide car choices.
“It’s like Ford and Chevy,” Pribek said.
My buddy, Larry Holiday, who I’ve gigged with many times and is a real good player and singer, is also a guitar collector. When I’ve played with Larry he has always showed up with different guitars, every time. Larry came out with the best stuff of the day.
Holiday was asked a question: Why do guitar players so often become guitar collectors?
His response: “Why do women like to buy shoes?”
He recalled an ex-wife who liked dogs.
Holiday said, “I told her, ‘Every time you bring home a new dog, I’m getting a new guitar.’
“She got up to 13 dogs at one time.”
Holiday maintains about two-and-a-half-dozen instruments in his arsenal.
“I’ve been staying pretty close to thirty (guitars). If I get rid of one, pretty soon I’ll get one.
“Sometimes I have to open the cases to see what I have.”
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Tags: Branson, Dave Abner, Fender Telecaster, Guitar, Larry Holiday, Pribek, Tele, Telecaster, TELL-lee
Sans Direction wrote,
The writer certainly likes run-on sentences.
There’s practical reasons for a working musician to have a variety of instruments, from having a variety of sounds for recording to having a deductible investment (assuming your gear is of the class to appreciate) that didn’t get mentioned.
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
J wrote,
I knew Jack would talk about the telecaster. Guess that makes me “tele”- pathic…LOL
(It’s been a long day already and it ain’t over yet!)
J’s last blog post..Preparing for performance.
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Great articles…
Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..It’a Official: Moopigwisdom.blogspot SUCKS !!!
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Pribek wrote,
Yeah, the Tele stuff, Dave had called me one night before this whole thing started and asked me a ton of questions about Teles. It seemed like he was interested in that for some reason. I have owned a lot of different kinds of guitars and, I remember in that phone call going in to depth about the differences. Then, I think he interviewed Larry right before me. Larry is one of those guys that can take all these guitars apart and put them back together. He’s the kind of guy you would call if you needed new frets on your vintage guitar. So, he has a history of tinkering.
Even when I had several guitars, I would normally just use one at a particular gig. I don’t like switching back and forth for a lot of reasons.
The gigs Larry and I have played together on were a lot of fun. Larry brings a couple of different guitars and runs a stereo amp setup, with a comprehensive pedal board. I’m on the other side with my “rig” which is way simple. But, it’s a good combination when we do it and I think it interests Dave that we do what we do with such different approaches. But, I would say that it owes more to the fact that we are both listening and give each other room.
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
d2r2 has left a new comment on your post “The Guitar may be Mightier than the Pen is !!”:
Take a careful look at the lead line on this post. Is it true?
Is that why we name our guitars Lucille? I knew it, all of the years of dreaming of relief from the burden of having frets to grab. No need to worry, all of the time spent running our hands up and down the neck was just practice.
Holey moley, Miss Molly, tell Tchaikovsky the news. Roll over Beethoven and watch out for that rock ‘n roll pneumonia Little Richard.
“One-guitar, two dog man… that’s our Pribek!!”
David D. and Pat
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Link | May 1st, 2008 at 6:57 am
Pribek wrote,
Many thanks to The Darnell Brothers Band-Looking forward to the boxed set.
Link | May 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am